Bloomfleld, Robert, an English poet, born in Suffolk, by trade a shoemaker; author of the “Farmer's Boy,” a highly popular production, translated into French and Italian; spent his last days in ill-health struggling with poverty, which brought on dejection of mind (1766‒1823).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bloody Statute * Blount, Charles